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Page 41
... preaching ? Only 500 , in a country of 9,000 parishes . This was not the only point in favour of an ordered liturgy ... preachers in their pulpits . As Samuel Butler , who passed through the disillusionments of this sickening epoch with ...
... preaching ? Only 500 , in a country of 9,000 parishes . This was not the only point in favour of an ordered liturgy ... preachers in their pulpits . As Samuel Butler , who passed through the disillusionments of this sickening epoch with ...
Page 62
... Preaching by the Spirit ( as they call it ) is most esteemed by the common people , because they cannot abide art or learning , which they have not been bred up in . ” And ' Preaching , for the most part , is the glory of the Preacher ...
... Preaching by the Spirit ( as they call it ) is most esteemed by the common people , because they cannot abide art or learning , which they have not been bred up in . ” And ' Preaching , for the most part , is the glory of the Preacher ...
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... preaching capacity , such lungs , that they could endure nine hours of it , in preaching and prayer , in the Abbey on the sabbath . Milton describes them for us : ' the most part of them were such as had preached and cried down , with ...
... preaching capacity , such lungs , that they could endure nine hours of it , in preaching and prayer , in the Abbey on the sabbath . Milton describes them for us : ' the most part of them were such as had preached and cried down , with ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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